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DREAM DAYS OF BOY HERO NEARING END Colorado Youth, Guest of Hoover, Is Ready for Return Home. AVIATION IS HIS GOAL Lad Informs President He Doesn't Intend to Stay in Farm Obscurity. By PAL!, R. MALI.ON United Tress .Stan Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 2. The dream is almost over lor Bryan Unticdt. Like his only counterpart, Cinderella, he will step through the glass doors of the V/lute House today after three days of hobnobbing with a President and a king. He will return to his plain home in the Colorado cow country, where candy is a luxury and milking the daily thrill. But the 13-year-old hero of a snowbound school bus is packing away with his harmonica and his knickers an idea that he is going to do something more than milk cow's the rest of his life. He has confided in the President and his new-found associates a decision that he is not going to drop back into the obscurity of a farm boy’s life. Aviation His Goal His inclinations are in the direction of acrnonautics, and his present ambition is to become a pilot or a mechanical engineer. It is just possible Mr. Hoover has decided to do something to further the lad’s hopes, but White House officials decline to discuss the matter. They also are silent concerning the time, of his departure, but he is going directly to Denver. Mr. Hoover put his foot down on any idea that the might go on to New York, although he received many invitations. Floyd Gibbons personally asked the lari to come to visit lum, but Unticdt declined, at Mr. Hoover’s request. The President feels he is personally responsible for the boy’s safe return. He has designated a secret service man to go along.

Fishing Trip Off Mr. Hoover hoped to be able to take Unticdt, to the Rapidan on a fishing trip over the week-end, but the necessity of finishing a speech for Monday before the International Chamber of Commerce required the President to remain in Washington. While all the White House officials will be sorry to see Untiedt go, the one who will feel it most is Peggy Ann Hoover, 6-year-old granddaughter of the President. •She has been lonesome for playmates for the last six months, and she found a playmate as well as a hero m Unticdt. Tagging along after him wherever he went, she listened enraptured while he played the harmonica or told her stories of life in Colorado. He has promised to write to her, but she can not be sure. Boys sometimes forget.

Thrill for Schoolmates By United Pres* HOLLY. Clo.. May 2.—Bryan Untiedt and his historic visit to Washington were the only subject receiving any attention today from pupils of Pleasant Hill school, the place of learning which Bryan attends when he isn't saving lives of schoolmates or calling on President j Hoover. It. was this school which several j weeks ago was stricken by tragedy in the form of a blizzard which ! trapped the Towner school bus and ! froze five of Bryan's schoolmates to j death. Mrs. Maude Mosier and Franz Frieday, teachers at the little school, Friday gave up trying to teach the children anything but history so long as Bryan is away. History is Bryan's favorite study, so the rest will pay a little attention to that, even with Bryan in Washington. ’ Eat Up” Newspapers As for all other classes, Mrs. Mosier and Frciday declared that ’'it just isn't any use.” The pupils simply ‘ devour” every newspaper which contains stories of Bryan's adventure. They look long at his picture—particularly one which was taken with the boy standing beside President Hoover. Mostly they await his return, to learn first hand of the wonders he has seen—to hear what he said to the President and what the President said to him. and to tease him a little, perhaps, about his friendship with Peggy Ann Hoover, the President's grandchild. That friendship, however, is no surprise to Bryan's mother—who lost one son in the tragedy which elevated another son to the role of a hero. Fond of Children “I am not surprised," she said. “Bryan always has been fond of little children. He is the favorite of his baby sister Ruth, and has had many small friends.” Bryan's younger brother, Virfil. 11, verified this by saying he wished Bryan would hurry home from Washington to take care of Ruth. I don't mind taking care of her if she doesn't cry. “but I’ll be glad when Bryan's back. She likes him best.” SCHEDULE TO CHANGE Garbage, Ash Collections Will be Put on Summer Schedule. Summer schedule of garbage and ash collections will go into effect Mondey, the sanitary board onaoyftccd ftg4a&

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 306

MIKE DE PIKE, VICE LORD, IS BELIEVED GANGSTER VICTIM

No Pajamas By United Pros DILWORTH, Minn, May 2. —The girls of Dilworth high school will not, it appeared today, wear pajamas to classes. ‘Go home and put some clothes on.” ordered Albert Zcch. principal, of five girls who arrived at school clad in sleeveless pajamas with* flared trousers. . *'No girl ever will sit in my classes with flapping pant legs,” explained the teacher.

JUST HOW OLD IS PEGGY? 43! Much-Married Miss Joyce Is Peeved at Probers. By United Press NEW YORK, May 2.—Peggy Hopkins Joyce is pretty piqued at Uncle Sam’s prosecutors, because they have revealed, of all things, a lady's deepest, darkest secret —her age. A federal man, curious about Peggy's fortune, and doubting that she filed a complete income tax return, got to prying among some yellowed papers in the little Virginia town where the much-married Miss Joyce w r as born and found her birth certificate. And that, he said, revealed her as being 43 years old. This . revelation will not prevent Peggy, however, from going to the customs house on Tuesday and trying to explain away a $51,000 duty and fine the government has assessed on her, charging she brought some undeclared jewelry into this country in 1922. And when she leaves the customs house, the United States attorney says he may take the actress into conference on another matter, this time about her income tax. He estimates she is worth some sl,250,000. RISES FROM ‘BEAD’ Woman Comes Home to City: Absent Nine Years. After an absence for nine years during which she was declared legally dead by the Marion probate court, Mrs. Clara Mildred Missik now is in possession of her estate following her return from the cast a few days ago. A satisfactory settlement was made between Mrs. Missik and her husband, Edward J. Missik, 1340 Linden street, who was named administrator of her estate after his wife had left leaving a note saying he would never see nor hear of her again. Believing his wife dead or remarried, Missik petitioned for settlement of her estate totaling $4,000. Mrs. Missik heard of the matter and returned to reopen the court finding. WABASH ORATOR WINS Hudson R. Sours Takes First Place and S6O Prize. Hudson H. Sours of Wabash college won first place and S6O in a state oratorical contest at Indiana Central college Friday night. Second honors and S4O were awarded Joseph Stoner of Manchester college. The prizes were given by Mary and Helen Seabury oi New Bedford, Mas. Other speakers were: Milton J. Green of Buter. Robert A. Parsons of Earlham. David Robin, Indiana State Teachers, and Joseph Forszt, Valparaiso. SPUR G. 0. P. PAPERS Publicity Work to Be Carried on in Rural Areas by Bureau, By l ii it< and Press WASHINGTON, May 2.—A new bureau has been organized in the Republican national committee to carry on publicity work in rural i areas. It will be headed by Charles : Frederick Scott of lola, Kan., and | will devote itself to converting or ; keeping in line the weekly and farm papers and subscribers. Scott, 70, is a well-known figure in Kansas small-town journalism. TROLLEY INCOME FALLS Revenue Decreases 566.879; Operation Costs Drop Only 517.187. While gross revenue of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company in March decreased $66,879.52 from that of March, 1930. the operating expense decreased only $17,187.89, according to report filed today. Net income, including sinking fund and securities payments was minus $47,183.18 for the month, and total gross revenue was $337,026.75.

RAREST DOG IN WORLD, JUST A ‘RUNT,’ EATS FOUR PULLETS FOR BREAKFAST

Bj/ United Press NEW' YORK. May 2.—Vasco da Gama, a Brazilian bush dog which measures only eight inches from paw to ear, but which must have four fresh-killed pullets for breakfast ever}- morning, settled down comfortably today in his new quarters at the Bronx 'zoo. where he rates the honor of ‘ rarest dqg in the world.” Chief Keeper John Toomey gave the new IcUcyoa Venaucus

Burned Body May Be That of Notorious Chicago Thug Leader. By United Press CHICAGO. May 2.— The mystery of whether Mike De Pike Heitler is dead or alive became more puzgzling hoursly today, as scientists sought to identify a charred body found in the smoldering ruins of an abandoned icehouse near Barrington, 111. Mike De Pike—christened Michael —was considered the “dean” of Chicago's “vice lords.” He was a ‘•flabby” sort of man. 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, and had ambitions to be a •'big shot” among the gangs ruled by Scarface A1 Capone. Heitler was to the south ana west sides what Jack Zuta was to the north side, except, police say, he was not nearly so smart and a little less ambitious. Zuta was shot down by gangsters in a Wisconsin hotel resort last fall. Brother Not Certain ♦ Mike De Pike's brother, Coleman, Friday tentatively identified the charred body as that of the gangster. Afte r it was buried in a sls coffin, without ceremony, Coleman ordered it exhumed and said if it could be proved to be that of Mike De Pike it would be reburied “as it should be.” Even Coleman, however, was not convinced that Mike De Pike was dead, although he admitted he thought he was. • Mike De Pike's two wives, one of whom has a 17-year-old daughter, were not so sure. One of them, the one with the daughter, said she saw Mike De Pike in person hours after the body was thought to be his was found in the ashe: of the icehouse. The other, Emily Mulcher Heitler, who said she wasn’t married to Heitler, but had lived with him for twenty-three years, indicated she thought maybe Mike De Pike had “just disappeared.” Fails to Face Court Heitler was booked to appear this week in different courts on charges of perjury and vagrancy. He did not appear. Police were even more convinced than Coleman Heitler that the body was that of Mike, and as a result they raided early today the hotel where Capone was reported to be in hiding. Acting under orders of the state's attorney’s office to “bring in Capone himself,” squads of police crashed doors and created havoc generally, in the hotel and other places said to be inhabited by gangsters. The theory was that if Capone himself had not ordered Heitler “taken for a ride” he at least knew who did. Numerous gangsters were arrested in the raids, but Capone was not among them. / Destroyed His Records Emil Heitler told police that like Jack Zuta, Mike De Pike "kept records” so in case he was killed, officers could know who he had transacted business with and guess who his enemies were. Last Sunday, she said, Heitler destroyed these records because, she said, “nobody was after him any more.” It was impossible to identify the body found near Barrington, except by the teeth. Scientists at Northwestern university studied the teeth today, while police hunted Heitler's dentist, if he had one. PURNELL IS SPEAKER Indiana Congressman to Address 1. U. Founder Day Dinner. Fred S. Purnell, Ninth Indiana district congressman, will be the principal speaker Wednesday night at Founders’ day dinner of Indiana university at the Columbia Club. Other speakers will be Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the university, and E. C. Hayes, head football coach. The dinner, marking the 111th anniversary of the founding of the university, will follow ceremonies at Bloomington Wednesday afternoon. KISSES WORTH SIO,OOO Young Cleveland Matron Sues Aged Neighbor for Advances. By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., May 2. —Kisses allegedly stolen by a 73-year-old neighbor are worth SIO,OOO to Mrs. Marie Low, 24, she stated in a damage suit on file in common pleas court here today. Mrs. Low charges that 'Ludwig Mayer, the aged neighbor, threw his arms about her and kissed her during her husband's absence. Mayer says that the suit is a plot to extort money from him. Pinch Three in Booze Raids Three men were arrested and a quantity of liquor confiscated in raids Friday night, police report. Those’held on liquor charges: James King, 225 Beauty avenue; V. Harding. 316 East North street, Apartment 6, and Lawrence Jensen, 3305 West Tenth street.

a gentle push in the ribs and placed a nice, fresh pullet into his cage. Vasco devoured it and looked inquiringly at Toomey. The chief keeper, well-versed in animal language, read the signs of hunger in Vasco's eyes and gave him a second, third and fourth pullet before his appetite was appeased. By this time the rare brother of the canis familiaris (almost any jjog) was ready for an examination by Dr. W. Reid Blair, director of the zoo.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931

TWO WOMEN SELECTED FOR KIRKLAND 2URY Grandmother and Mother on Tentative List in Trial for Gin Death. CHOICE TO BE DIFFICULT Attorneys Say Task Nearly Hopeless, Owing to Wide Publicity on Case. By United Press VALPARAISO. Ind., May 2.—Two women, one a grandmother and the other the mother of a grown, unmarried daughter, were added to the seven jurors tentatively accepted today to hear the second trial of Virgil Kirkland, former Gary athlete, on charges of murdering his high school sweetheart, Arlene Draves. With not a single juror definitely accepted, and a third panel of seventy-five called for Monday, when the trial reopens, both defense and prosecution faced what appeared a hopeless task of selecting twelve jurors who would admit they were “open minded ’ in the matter of determining Kirkland's guilt or innocence. The majority of the eighty-one men and three women who passed through the jury box this week admitted definite opinions derived from the first trial, in which the 20-year-old defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment on conviction of murder as the result of a blow. .. Many of them, farmers, said they could not spare any time from their farm labors. The two women accepted Friday by the state and awaiting questioning by the defense said they were “open minded” on the case. Mrs. Mattie Conover, 55, of Valparaiso, a grandmother, told defense attorneys tnat, while a prohibitionist, she did not condemn modern youth “for violation of the Volstead act.” She also indicated she was not disturbed by the liberal moral attitude of the young people of today. The other woman accepted by the defense was Mrs. Martha Cowdrey, mother of a 23-year-old daughter. She said she did not condemn drinking and that she would base her verdict in the trial “solely on the evidence presented.” Before adjourning court until Monday, Judge Grant Crumpacker said he would take under advisement a defense motion to suppress a book entitled. “The Inside Story of the Kirkland Case.” A copy presented at the opening of the session was said to contain portions of the evidence in the first trial not printed in newspapers.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK. May 2.—The stock market began the short session today with most issues fractionally lower following the 9 point downswing in the Dow-Jones industrial average near the close Friday. United States Steel common stock met support around the previous closing level of 11414. Other leaders were less fortunate. Westinghouse Electric sold down to 58U, off TANARUS; Du Pont 79 Vs, off lVa; International Telephone 25 " 8 , off -V, Standard of New Jersey 36’.;. off U, and Fox Film A 18 n g, off J. I. Case was down to 77 s 4, off I=4; North American 662 . off 1; Public Service 79 I*, 1 *, off =4, and New York Central 94=g, off 7*. Small advances were made by International Nickel, Electric Power and Light, Loew’s Commonwealth and Southern, Consolidated Gas, Gillette. Columbia Gas and Standard Brands. BUREAU CHIEF SPEAKER Walter E. Shearer Will Address Rotary Club Members. Walter E. Shearer, president of the Marion County Farm % Bureau, will speak Tuesday at the meeting of the Rotary Club at the Claypool. Other speakers are: Walter Risto, president of the Indianapolis Vegetable Growers’ Association; Edwin J. Kendall, president of the Marion County Herd Improvement Association, and John E. Webb, president of the Indiana Sheep Breeders’ Association. Lecture Series to Start Cultural life of India will be portrayed in a series of lectures by Sri Ram Sukul, Brahmin philosopher and lecturer, from Benares. India, president and director of the Applied Yoga Institute of America and India Society, at the Lincoln. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday at 8 p. m.

VASCO, while only eight inches tall, measures seventeen inches from stem to stern and weighs only fifteen pounds. Toomey scratched his head and wondered how so little dog could eat so much chicken. But Doctor Blair continued with his measurements. Vasco has short ears, a massive head and a tail only an inch and one-half long, and in no way resembles a daschund—or any other dog for that matter. * “But we can t &lp feeisg ex-

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RAISE BAN ON TURNS TO LEFT Pennsylvania and Ohio Rule Dropped by Safety Board, Left hand turns at the intersection of Massachusetts avenue and Pennsylvania and Ohio streets today were permissible, as result of a decision reached at a meeting of the safety board and Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney with Mayor Reginald H. Sulivan, Friday. Petition asking that bans be lifted on left turns at this intersection and at Virginia avenue and Pennsylvania street and right and left turns both at Meridian and Washington streets was filed with the board and city council by Attorney Delbert O. Wilmeth, representing seventy downtown business men recently. The board filled two vacancies on the police department, but did not act on three fire department vacancies. Policemen named are Russell B. Chatham, 2309 North Capitol avenue, and James P. Kelley, 1013 South Senate avenue. YEGGS' LOOT S7OO % Blow Open Strong Box After Wrecking Combination. After hammering off the combination, safe-crackers today blew open the strong box in the office of the Bethard Wall Paper Company, 415 Massachusetts avenue, escaping with SSOO in currency and S2OO in checks. The yeggs had gained entrance through a rear window and used tools in the store to prepare the safe for the blast. The robbery was discovered by Theron Waddell, 1345 Edwards street, clerk in the store, when he opened it this morning. PORKER PRICES OFF 10 CENTS AT YARDS Cattle and Calf Markets Nominal With Lower Trend. Weakness and lack of strong support carried hogs down fractionally at the city stockyards this morning, the market holding steady to 10 cents lower. The bulk, 140 to 300 pounds, sold for $7.25 to $7.50, early top represented by the $7.50 figure. Receipts were estimated at 2,000; holdovers were 176. Cattle receipts were 50; the market nominal. Vealers sold off 50 cents at $8 down. Calf receipts were 100. Sheep were nominal, receipts numbering fifty. Chicago hog receipts were 8.500. including 7,500 direct. Holdovers, 1.000. Hogs scarce, fully steady with Friday's average. Good to choice hogs weighing around 170 to 200 pounds sold at 57.50 to $7.60. while early top held at $7.60. Heavy weights from 270 pounds up were selling at $6.90. Cattle receipts, 400. Calves, 500, and steady. Sheep receipts were 8.000: steady.

cited about him.” Dr. Blair declared. “It is definitely the rarest dog in the world. It is reported the London zoo had one in 1879 and the Amsterdam zoo possessed a short-lived specimen just before the war. / ‘ The species was not recorded in history until 1842. when Peter Wilhelm Lund, Danish naturalist, noted its strange cry when he was exploring the Brazilian wilds.” Incidentally, Vasco s call is just another of the qjany strange

Wed by Radio Television Used for First Time at Marriage Ceremony.

By United Press NEW YORK, Majfc 2.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borie Du Vail were honeymooning somewhere in New York today—the first television bridal couple ever to have their wedding both heard and seen over the air. Miss Grayce Lillian Jones, a 21-year-old secretary, and Du Vail, 25, a television engineer, stood before the flickering lights of the television while thousands of persons listened and as many as are equipped with the sight devices watched the Rev. Dr. A. Edwin Keigwin pronounce them man and wife. The wedding, held in the studios of a New York skyscraper, was little different than that performed in the village church, except for the maze of mechanism necessary for the sight and hearing broadcast, # # # Mortimer stewart. announcer, stepped into the rapid flickering lights of the television and raised his hand for quiet. An organ, apparently in another part of the building, but connected with the hookup, began playing the familiar wedding strains. Parents and friends of the couple stood around as Miss Jones and Du Vail walked toward the projection screen. Mr. Keigwin stepped into view, his prepared ceremony in his hand and joined the couple in wedlock, while relatives wept and offered cheering words. But Du Vail and his bride could see nothing unusual when they were informed that the broadcast had been successful and that their wedding had “filmed well.” “I don’t see why there was so much fuss,” Du Vail said. “The ceremony was by television, but in ■ every other way the wedding was absolutely regular.” Hope Hampton, actress, was chief bridesmaid and Delbert E. Replogle, vice-president of the Jenkins Television Company, was best man. EYE OPERATION FATAL Boy, 15,. Dies. Under Anesthetic; Hoped to Be Like Mussulman. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, May 2.—William Rubin, 15, a blind boy, ho came to Philadelphia for an operation in the hopes of regaining his sight as did Earl Musselman, failed to survive an anesthetic and died, a police report said today. The youth was brought here from Detroit by his mother, Mrs. Katherine R.ubin. who had read about Musselman gaining his sight after twenty-two years of blindness. Seek to Padlock Grocery Deputy prosecutors are seeking to padlock the grocery store'and home of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Burdack, 1202 Nordyke avenue, in a suit for injunction in superior court four. It is alleged the place is a resort for selling intoxicating liquor.

things about him. It is nothing like the bark of a dog—more like the call of a weasel and the chirp of a bird combined, Toomey says. n n n IN fact, Toomey is pretty much worried about this call. Every time Vasco cries out, the weasel answers and so do the birds That's got to be corrected he said, because it keeps the weasel and the birds in a constant frenzy. Neither Vasco Ssor any of his relations ever wtfi park on soft

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BARBER BATTLES BANDITS; i SHOT DOWN, MONEY TAKEN; ' WOUND MAY PROVE FATAL —■— • ■ ; Three Robbers Fought Off With Lunch Pail v? Until They Use Gun; Two Suspects Taken. BAKERY DRIVER ALSO BULLET VICTIM Thugs Open Fire on Man When He Is Slow in Obeying Command to ‘Stick ’Em Up.' A barber lay critically wounded in city hospital today, after an attempt to beat off three bandits who waylaid him as he left his shop Friday night, carrying $lB in a sack. Folice are holding two men as suspects, but have failed in attempts to extract confessions from them. The wounded man is William Layton, 57. of 2020 Bellefontaine street. He was the second of two men shot by bandits in holdup attempts Friday.

Ora May, 36, of 2519 South Pennsylvania street, a bakingcompany driver, was shot through the hand when he was slow to obey a robber's orders to ‘stick ’em up!’’ Layton closed his barber shop at 1044 East Michigan street, to go to BANK BANDITS TO FACE COURT Guilty Pleas Are Expected in Oaklandon Case. Two men, captured shortly after robbing the Oaklandon State bank Thursday of more than $2,000. are expected to plead guilty at arraignment in criminal court today and probably will be sentenced immediately. The two, James Cordell. 32. of Detroit, and Charles Le Roy Palmer, 34. of Cleveland, are scheduled to appt ,r before Judge Frank P. Baker .this morning. Sentences of at least twenty years each in the Indiana state prison are expected to follow pleas of guilty. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson caused indictments to be rushed through Friday, when bonds of the robbers were set at $50,000 each. Should the bandits demand a trial by jury and be found guilty, the court will fix the penalty. The statute under which they will be sentenced, according to Wilson, provides for not less than ten years to life imprisonment.

CUT INTEREST RATES Reduction Ordered by City Banks and Loan Firms. Reduction of interest rates on time deposits in banks and building and loan association was announced today by officers of the Indianapolis Clearing House. Average interest on savings now is 3 per cent as compared to 4 per cent, and building and loan associations are paying 5 per cent. The former association rate averaged 6 per cent. STEVE’S APPEAL OUT OF ORDER, STATE SAYS Attorney-General’s Office Files Pleadings With High Court. D. C. Stephenson can not appeal to Hamilton circuit court for writ of error coram nobis with the murder appeal pending before the supreme court, according to pleadings filed with the high court by the attorneygeneral’s office. Attorneys for the one-time klan dragon, who now is serving life sentence for murder, have petitioned the supreme court to mandate the lower court hearing, which had been denied because of lack of jurisdiction by Judge Fred E. Hines. A petition for writ of error coram nobis was withdrawn by Stephenson’s attorneys many months ago, in the supreme court. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, 20 miles an hour; temperature, 63; barometric pressure, 29.90 at sea level; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 3 5 2 miles; field, good.

cushions in a dowager's boudoir. Unfortunately, the Brazilian bush dog has an odor strongly resembling a civet—only much stronger. Vasco was sent to the Bronx zoo by an expatriated Russian explorer, who is known only as Bodinskv, and lives in Para. 3razil. “This Bodinsky seems to have a sixth sense in scenting out strange dogs,” Dr. Blair said, “although I will admit it doesn't take much of a sense of swell to scent out Vasco.”

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a restaurant in which he owns a half interest at 725 Massachusetts avenue.

On Michigan street, near Pine, he passed an auto parked at the curb, where three men appeared to be working on it. One of the men leaped at him, commanding “Up with ’em!” Swings at Robbers In one hand Layton carried a lunch pail. He swung at the man. broke the handle, and then used the sack of change for a blackjack. There were two shots, and the three gunmen jumped into the roadster and drove away. Unaware that he was shot through the abdomen, Layton started to walk to the home of Clyde Gaddis. 912 East Michigan street. Suddenly he became faint and almost collapsed. Gaddis and John Long, 329 North Walcott street, took him to Mrs, Layton's restaurant, where Detectives Clarence Golder and s John Giles just had entered to eat. They sent Layton to the hospital. At the scene of the struggle police picked up the gun. an automatic pistol with two cartridges empty nearby. The found a dirty cap. the lunch box. and a roll of newspapers. The men had escaped, taking Layton's sack, containing the $lB. Car Is Stolen Later near Vermont, and Fulton strets, police found the roadster they believe was used. It had been stolen from Harry D. Ammerman, 315 North Jefferson avenue. Two men half a block away were arrested and held on vagrancy charges for questioning. May was shot in the 700 block North Gladstone avenue by one of two young men who drew alongside his wagon in a Ford coupe. After the shooting, the bandits drove away. They obtained no money. REBELS DRIVE ON FOE Federals Make Desperate. Effort to iWach Honduras City. By United Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May 2. —Government reinforcements sped toward the city of Santa Rosa, twenty miles from the Guatemalan border, today in an effort to save it from the hands of attacking revolutionary forces under General Gregorio Ferrera. Officials said it was almost certain that the town would fall to the rebels if federals were delayed. Fighting in Santa Rosa, one of the leading cities of the western zone, began Friday night. TAXPAYERS WARNED Must Remit by Monday or Faoe Penalty, Robinson Asserts. All persons holding tax assessments not paid after 4 p. m. Monday will have a 10 per cent penalty for delinquency added against them. Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer, announced today. Collection of approximately $12,000,000 in taxes in Marion county is anticipated by tax officials. Tax payments this year are far ahead of last year, Robinson declared. MADEIRA REBELS WIN Repulse Lisbon Government Troops in Attack on Island. By United Press FUNCHAL. Madeira Island. May 2.—The rebel military leaders of the Funchal garrison issued a communique today claiming that the Lisbon government troops had been repulsed in their efforts to land on Madeira island. The communique said attacks at Ribeira, Brava, Machico and Calheta had been turned back by the rebel artillery fire and that some federal forces had suffered casualties. MICHAEL IS IMPROVED Rumanian Boy Prince Given Serum, Reported Better, By United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 2. Crown Prince Michael was reported improving today after inoculation with diphtheria serum. The prince has been ill since Wednesday. King Carol indicated the improvement of the prince by departing on a three-day visit to Timisoara. The royal physicians were said to be satisfied with Michael's condition. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 50 a. m 58 i 7t/ .a 50 9a. m..... 63